6 Thomas Moore Quotes on Memory

Thomas Moore quotes on memory

3. Oft, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken!

4. I feel like one, Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed!

9. Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid.

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10. And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.

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19. You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

23. There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.